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Wow. Huh?
… palindromist (and stand-up comedian), Mark Saltveit ’83, of Portland, Oregon, moves backward as well as forward in life more than most of us. Constant readers will recognize him as the author of “No Smircog!,” a 1997 “interview” in this very …
Issue: July-August 2012
A Man for One Season
… It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. With new quarterback Andrew Hatch ably …
Issue: November-December 2010
“Today” Comes to Class Day
… Ohio University graduate Matt Lauer feigned awe at the start of his Harvard Class Day oration on June 3 by encouraging … e-mail photographs to him afterwards: “I’m going to need proof of this!” He recalled trying to convince his high-school …
Brevia
… Hailing from Harvard To fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, LL.B. ’60, President Barack … 16 nominated Merrick B. Garland ’74, J.D. ’77, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. …
Issue: May-June 2016
Melton and Henderson Named University Professors
… M. Henderson have been appointed to named University Professorships. Melton, heretofore Cabot professor of the natural sciences, is also a Harvard College Professor …
Fresh Takes on the Caribbean
… The multimedia exhibition “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today,” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, through February 25, opens with … Mattai’s 2022 An Ocean Cradle could be a textured map of land, clouds, or shifting migrants’ routes. But up close, …
Issue: January-February 2024
A Fever for Chèvre
… For Max Sandvoss ’02 and his brother, Trystan, the chores associated with making small-batch … television actor. The seed for their career change grew out of long conversations during an extended vacation in the … changed his first name to Max.) Now they look after a herd of more than 100 Nubian and Alpine goats. The goats’ milk, …
Issue: September-October 2013
Arts and Sciences' Ambitious Plans
… In his annual report, published in early February, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) William C. Kirby outlined three …
Issue: March-April 2004
Russia Case Progresses
… In late June, Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court in Boston issued a summary judgment … Shleifer in Cambridge)—had invested in Russian enterprises through their wives (see " Brevia ," September-October …
Issue: September-October 2004
Glossary for an Invisible World
… Feature Article: The Undiscovered Planet Archaea: One of three major domains, or classifications, of life, archaea are morphologically similar to bacteria, …
Issue: November-December 2007
Going Home Again
… The final project for my fall semester writing course … year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Glad to be free of the … to represent underlying turmoil, drastic changes, and crises in their works. But apart from the comfort I found in …
Issue: May-June 2004
Pardis Sabeti
… On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Pardis Sabeti was not in her office at Harvard’s Center for Systems Biology, but en route to Manhattan—to play a gig that night at a club in the Meatpacking District with Thousand Days, the … the latter does not detract from her duties as assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology; the …
Issue: May-June 2009
Radcliffe Ramps Up
… Things are different at Fay House. As the academic year begins, Drew Gilpin Faust, the Civil War historian who is the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RI), has made … changes in programs and personnel, including a series of senior academic appointments. In the process, the form of …
Issue: September-October 2001
Silver, Screens
… An analog photograph isn’t just taken—composed, framed, and then snipped out of reality. A photograph is also made. Ansel Adams once likened the darkroom alchemy of developing and printing a negative to the performance of …
Underground Party
… Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling … some extraordinary companions, with the completion in March of New Year’s Eve Revelers, a permanent mosaic mural …
Issue: May-June 2008